Like the Texas-born Johnson, country icon McEntire was a rodeo rider before she turned her sights to country music. She says the song "really settled in my bones" (quote via CMT) when she heard it.

Cody Johnson and Reba McEntire team up for the new collaboration “Dear Rodeo,” a song that nods to both of the country singers’ pasts: Johnson was a bull rider, McEntire a barrel-racer. Written by ...